If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

The holy country is occupied by holy citizens.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

Who hastens a glutton choakes him.

I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.

My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I'm insane, not forgetful.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.