If you want to be happy, make others happy!
I grew up in the United States.
I am not political as a person.
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
I don't have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.
I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.
I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'
Desire is the very essence of man.
I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.
The glamour of it all! New York! America!
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Man lives in a world of meaning.
There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.