No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

We all have appointments with the past.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

I was like, you know, if you want to be someone big, you have to dress the part.

I think ... that things are a little bit up for grabs right now.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.