A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.