Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not.

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren’t treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you’re on the right side?

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.