I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.