Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

Do you think he's the murderer?""It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

I like not to be good at anything, so I keep hopping around.

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.