I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.