Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.