“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”
“A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.”
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
“...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...”
“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”
“The man who does that which avails in reforms or other good works always has clubs thrown at him. The nobodies are passed over in Silence, or with good natured unmeaning compliments after they leave high places.”