Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.