Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.