A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Failure too is a form of death.
You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and books...
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situat...
When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.
We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But he knew hte falsity of the reasoning; he knew how they taught also that there was noth...
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things we...
They killed him because he was too innocent to live.
They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him...
The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...''Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.''I don't remember that.''The history book...