“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

“Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.”

“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”

“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

“Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?”

“Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”

“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”

“I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”

“Regrets came up and asked me if Id like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldnt leave this relationship empty handed.”