Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

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.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.