Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.