All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.