Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine.

No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events and places and memories and desire and love that is your life hasn't ever existed in the history of the Universe. Welcome to a truly unique phenomenon. Welcome to your life. I want you to be here. Welcome to here.

You create novelty by violating the target’s expectations in a pleasing way.

Just when you think humanity has found the limits of stupid, they go and ratchet up the standard by another notch.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

When you’re creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain’t the limit.

And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that “extra” in “extraordinary.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.

But if it is prose, it is prose of a previously unknown order, for the depth and multiplicity of mind that seem to function at every choice have not been matched in any piece of Western writing.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.