If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

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?

Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.

No matter how big a hen's hut is, it must bow to enter

In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

Survivor Series is something that was very surreal to me to be a part of, but now, I just want to do it again.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

Social media really grew up.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.