Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.