Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Time is the least thing we have.
It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.