The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.