“Nothing is as important as dancing. . . . Better a fourth-rate dancer than a first-rate anything else.”

“Sex is stronger than doors or windows.”

“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.”

“Every emotion in the world wishes to be expressed, every task desires to be done. Coincidence is the perfect texture.”

“I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict -- the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.”

“I pull into the mall. This is the place to go when you're feeling homesick for California. The rest of the world likes our buildings, contructs with 'character,' but Californians like everything spanking new, clean as an unopened package of plastic spoons.”

“That's the human heart for you -- whatever you flee, that's the thing you are looking for.”