Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?

I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline. She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then. Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not. I'll reserve my judgment until then.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.