When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.