Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.