Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

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.

I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon's Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy throat?

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.