To be a classic, a novel should be original.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

we dislike those we've injured.