The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.