There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.