Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.