That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.