We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.