Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.