I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.