It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.