This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.