I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

Enough !! of the lion ruling the wild territory, time to vote the panther gentlemen.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.

If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

First is first, and second is nowhere.

Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected

Can't all beasts be tamed?