I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.