Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Life sucks. Hard. I don’t care how melodramatic that sounds, it’s the truth and I’m living it.

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.