How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me..

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible..

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work..

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance..

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there….

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we….

We want someone to bring us the news..

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!.

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand..

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having..

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were crea….

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power..

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear….

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are..

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law..

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when….

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least..

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist..

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money.