The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.