And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation