You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Write drunk; edit sober.