I'm good at reading people.

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

I'm good at reading people.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.