“In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.”

“The great and only possible dignity of man lies in his power deliberately to choose certain moral values by which to live as steadfastly as if he, too, like a character in a play, were immured against the corrupting rush of time. Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. As far as we know, as far as there exists any kind of empiric evidence, there is no way to beat the beat the game of being against non-being, in which non-being is the predestined victor on realistic levels.”

“I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.”

“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”

“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”

“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.”