There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.