If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime.

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.