Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.