Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.