As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.

The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.