A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in....

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existen…

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the …

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Disraeli felt that 'nothing could compensate his obscure youth, not even a glorious old age.' Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny an…

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.