We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it's just piling up.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day-a way of relating.

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.