In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.

If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

I had a nightmare that I slept without my nose tape on thank God it wasn't true!

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

The past has to inform the present...