How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
Literature is analysis after the event.
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.