For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

When you stop growing you start dying.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.