I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.