Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Everything human is alien to me.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Insistence on one’s own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.

We cannot trust our own minds, traditions and beliefs.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.