Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.