Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

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.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.