I no longer feel banished from myself.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.