“I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.”

“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”

“But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.”

“To him that waits all things reveal themselves,' provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.”

“There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.”