I have no television - I hate 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?

You must find your sacred path and travel on

I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

In code, it never pays to rush.

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film.

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

There's no such thing as a person who has to go away.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?