The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

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.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.