The heart is a place of secrets.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.