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.

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

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.