I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Time is the least thing we have.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.