“...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.”
“Love is as old as time, though it is considerably more difficult to stuff inside a watch.”
“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”
“Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is.”
“See? Even dead she makes me a better whatever-the-hell it is I am. A less stupid person. A more considerate monster.”
“In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.”