words can never get at the truth.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.