Worry destroys the ability to write.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.