We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

I have made love to ten thousand women.

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

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

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

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

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