there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.