kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.