Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

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?

One forgets so quickly one's own youth.