Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
A shy face is better than a forward heart.
God save us from religion.
You really burden the reader if you put things in but, "Oh, it's not interesting, but I'll put it in anyway. " Then the reader's going to think, like, "Mmm. . . no thanks. " So the thing is to cut all that stuff out before its published.
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.