The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

An answer is always a form of death.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree.

A Dirty Clown Is a Ridiculously Clean when standing amongst Politicians.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it's all going to turn out.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.