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.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.