And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

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