I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.