Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.