I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.