I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

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

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.