To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.