Block Quotes

Manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

I didn’t do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for.

It ain’t made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.

Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, “Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!”

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in “Jurgen” that “to do what you always have done” and “what is expected of you” are the twin rules of life.

I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn’t kill anybody.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.