Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.