Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2. 4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.
Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.
Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.
The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.
Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.
If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.