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Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.
A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.
You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.
There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.
salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.
They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.