I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.