For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.