There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.