It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

Politics isn't in my nature.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.