Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world