After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.