The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.