There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

Brothers naturally invite comparison.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say.

I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need.

You never know what people are going to go and see.