I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

One cat just leads to another.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

No one you love is ever truly lost.