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.
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.