To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

I can get pissed off very easily.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.