I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.