Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.