I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Finally... I'm here...

Self acceptance is pure power.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.