If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

A writer wastes nothing.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.