I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

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?

We are filled vessels that gets to choose what we pour back into the world, and what we choose to share defines who we are.

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden.

The music of rebellion makes you want to rageBut it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.

Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me.

I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.