I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.