A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too.

For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.