Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.