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" When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. "

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" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "

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" 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 child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" 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. "

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

" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "

" 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. "

" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "

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

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

" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "

" Writing is the hardest physical work there is. "

" 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. "

" 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 am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "

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Difference

" The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. "

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

" There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "

" One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. "

" Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. "

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

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