"So take my advice: whatever you do? Don’t blink"

“Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.”

“During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.”

“In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.”

“Red tape has killed more people than bullets...”

“Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?”

Source : "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.

“My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.”

Source : "Elmore Leonard's Secret: 'Clean Living, and a Fast Outfield'". Interview with Jon Wiener, lareviewofbooks.org. August 20, 2013.

“I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.”