All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.