This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write.

Everyone wants to get out of living where they're living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun. But when you think back to earlier times, you only extrapolate the nice things.

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.