Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Love and honesty don't mix.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.’ (Syn)

The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.