A man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

They minute people fall in love they become liars.

I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyes water.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.