Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

He who has never hoped can never despair

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.