If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

Damn it all, you cant have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

Dont play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

Being a writer in a library […] is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

What is imposed on us by birth and environment is what we are called upon to overcome.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

The opposite of loneliness, its not togetherness. It is intimacy.

Californias a wonderful place to live – if you happen to be an orange.

Sleep is when all unsorted stuff comes as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.