There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.

Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.