Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn

Minds were made for blowing.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.