Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.