It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.