If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.