I felt like poisoning a monk.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

Every difficulty draws us toward a higher power than ourselves.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

Not all teachers utilize both forms of light.In certain circles, those teachers who can manifest the light of samadhi but not the mystical light have put down the mystical light.

At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a dream, Ken Lay had a scheme.

I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand

I adore pretty things & witty words.

If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]