The truth is always multiplex.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

Hero, ” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let’s try not to annoy them.

I got plenty. You can have all my light, my shine. I got plenty. All my boys here, we working being creative.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

I once said to someone, If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.