There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.