What reality was ever made by realists?

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Some men are born posthumously.

if you don't believe, nothing ever happens at all.

Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Vampires are very sexy right now. It's kind of disgusting. It's kind of a bandwagon.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.