If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.