I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.