I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

Life is short, Love is Endless. Live and love life to the full!

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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