Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

To look at possibility is to be free.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.