I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

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