Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.