I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you.[…]You turn the page and there is nothing.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Seeing does not always believe.

We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.