Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.