A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.