The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

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?

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Use fear as a counselor not a captor.

Preservation of the past has been one of humankind’s chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving.

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

Love has a hundred gentle ends.

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.