If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

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