I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

Money is sad shit

Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

All of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

I've always been interested in UFOs.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).

As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.

Oliver Cromwell can kiss my singing emerald scrotum!

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.