Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

The truth is what hurts

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.