I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.