Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

My work has always been the product of my time.