Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

If you must go nowhere, step out.

It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.