Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

I have dedicated my life to a doomed struggle against reality and the things that cannot be otherwise

The junkie ignites his feelings with ugly synthetic substances, and the emotions that were meant to last for a lifetime burn away in full force in a couple of short years.

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.

Usually it's like this: I sit down and drink with the idea of clarifying just where I am going with my life, and then, after a while, I am unable even to stand on my feet

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority, you create leaders

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

Success is never so interesting as struggle