“Perhaps because I run in straight circles.”

“I am the ship in which you sail,little dancing bones”

“You cant be you, without being you.”

“Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.”

“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly. And generally socially inept. Me being the notable exception, of course. Writers want to be special, because they're so not. They're losers, overgrown kids who've never escaped from being misfits and who have run away into their own imaginations in an attempt to find self-esteem. Why do you think they all star in their own books? Self included.”

“Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.”

“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”