Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.