Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.