“Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.”

“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”

“We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.”

“The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.”

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”

“You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).”

“He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.”