Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.