The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Creators almost always go mad.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.