There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.