Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.