To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.