“I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartmentall alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a ca...”

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”

“Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.”

“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

“Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as...”

“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”

“Work will drive you crazy if you let it.”

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whi...”