Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

There are no bad pictures

In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

All the world's roads lead to the heart of the Warrior.

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

I've seen looks before that have literally taken my breath away - like someone on the red carpet and it's just like I can't even breathe, like you get some type of amazing anxiety.