It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

Father of four. I like the sound of that.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it's letting go.

My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.

When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Yes books are dangerous. They should be dangerous they contain ideas.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

I am here and here is nowhere in particular.

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

I do not pilfer victory.