Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as "Mon" in three different nations. I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide. I have seen sunsets that looked computer-enhanced. I have (very briefly) joined a conga line.