We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

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

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

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