Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning