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" Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. "

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" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "

" My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. "

" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "

" The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. "

" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "

" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "

" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "

" True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. "

" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "

" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "

" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "

" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "

" To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. "

" 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. "

" Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. "

" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "

" I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. "

" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "

" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "

" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "

" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "

" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "

" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "

" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "

" What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. "

" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "