I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

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?

Why should a religion claim that it is not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason! If one does not take the standard of reason, there cannot be any true judgment, even in the case of religion.

There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.

For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.

I know karate, and like two other Japanese words - T-SHIRT

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.