Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.