The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.