Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains