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.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

Culture is worth a little risk.

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.