Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.

There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.