Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.