Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.