He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.