To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's...
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated f...
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it bec...
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff. When a...
The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
What a strange power there is in clothing.
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.
Writing has power but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind but they can't direct it. Time changes things God changes things the dictators change things but writers can't change anyt...
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with...