I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.