What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.