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

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

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

I have made love to ten thousand women.

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.

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

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.