I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

We are always the same age inside.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.