Logic is what the devil likes most.

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

It seems there are no rich on death row.

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.