A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

...you needs uh man.” Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone

They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.