I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

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.

Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources

Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

I ought to come up there and break your shuck nose.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

When you're in touch with your heart, you feel a connection with others and you have access to your wisdom.

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.