For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

They minute people fall in love they become liars.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified.