“As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.”

“You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.”

“A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.”

“The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.”

“How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to...”

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”