I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.