The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.