There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.