"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it?"

"Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have."

"Evil is what is good for other people."

"You can choose to be anything you want to be, but you can't be everything you want to be."

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones which can be given neither a name nor any real description…"