To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.

To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.