The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.