The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.