Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.