Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.