I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.

I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.

Kill the body and the head will die.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.