Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.