We’re not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there’d be a great many things in it we can’t comprehend.

You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that.

You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

Love is where you find it.

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.