You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.