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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Yoga is a journey toward your inner core to find your inner bliss.

Before, time held no meaning with him. Now it’s everything. Every second of my existence feels like it will be the last.

I didn’t know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one.

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.