It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.