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.

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

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

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.