You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

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

The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it.