Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

Easy writing makes hard reading.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.