I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

With death comes honesty.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .