I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.