The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.