He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

The object of powder is powder.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.