“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”

“The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".”

“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”

“A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned”

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”