Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.