There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

Experience is not a surety for profit but security.Carry an Honest Experience.

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.

I personally like to do independent films.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.