I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.