“The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture”

“Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.”

“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”

“No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Texan. It is because he has renounced God. He is that way because he was born that way, or because the Devil has claimed him for one of his own, or because the only woman he ever loved was untrue to him.”

“I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind”

“Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.”

“So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.”