“Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.”

“We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.”

“It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.”

“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”

“Those who jump out of airplanes do not love lifethey deny it, which, of course, is not done without a certain naughty exhilaration. Like children they relish tugging on the apron of Mother Nature, ...”

“Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.”

“The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all.”

“Big secrets were catastrophic. However hard you try to hide them, they bob to the surface and you must go over them again and again. They are taken out so often they become worn smooth as a river s...”

“This is because secrets are terrible things. Even the simplest ones”