1. “What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?”
2. “Length is usually intensity. Not time.”
3. “A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.”
4. “There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.”
5. “Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.”
6. “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”
7. “Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.”
8. “Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.”
9. “Get too conceptual, too cute and remote and your characters die on the page.”
10. “Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a ma an ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
11. “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
12. “There is no difference between the behavior of god and the operations of pure chance.”
13. “All variables are independent.”
14. “It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.”
15. “Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.”
16. “Why should things be easy to understand.”
17. “Through the machineries of greed, pettiness and the abuse of power, love occurs.”
18. “A screaming comes across the sky.”
19. “Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.”
20. “Our history is an aggregate of last moments.”
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