Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Words gain credibility by deed.

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

God ever geometrizes.

When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.