In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

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.

My father was in the First World War.