Callous greed grows pious very fast.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Freedom costs you a great deal.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.