We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

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

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

You've such a lovely temperature.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.