Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
I’ve never read anything so badly written that got published. It made ‘Twilight’ look like ‘War and Peace.’
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
Home is the place where you feel happy.
Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.
English is no longer an English language, it now grows from many roots.
One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
When you know what you’re against you have taken the first step to discovering what you’re for.
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
This may be the curse of the human race. Not that we are different from one another, but we are so alike.