I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.