Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.