No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.