I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

Writers do not come out of houses without books.