The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and believes in these voices. It doesn't mean they have any necessary reality. Your whole concept of your "I" is an illusion. You have to give something called an "I" before you speak of what the "I" believes.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

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.

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

Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.