"All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system."

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”

“I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

“Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who don't understand books don't understand this. They learn from TV shows about organizing that you should get rid of the books that you aren't reading, but everyone who loves books believes the opposite. People who love books keep them around, like photos, to remind them of a great experience and so they can revisit and say, 'Wow, this is a really great book.”

Source : "Bookshop owner talks book industry, bookswapping and book love". Interview with Molly Snyder, onmilwaukee.com. September 10, 2011.

“Time itself made all things rare.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.37, Counterpoint Press

“I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.”

“Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.”

“It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.”