“To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.”

“I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what itwill be. I want it to have not a graceful curve slightly bent toward evening but a hitherto unseen bea...”

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”

“Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.”

“Betrayal is beautiful.”

“I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.”

“I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.”

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as Ive said before, bugs in amber.”

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”