Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.