“Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?I try to smile. What's the difference, really.”

“I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.”

“When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn int...”

“Please God, when I open my eyes, make this nightmare disappear.”

“If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”