We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.

Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

I can't type. Can't do it.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?

You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Sucks to your ass-mar!

THEY ATE LUNCH in a Mexican place called Dirty Is God.

I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull's tested positive. Twice.

There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.