The roots of art and play lie very close together.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.

Practice transforms a skill into an art

The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!

Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.