The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.