The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

If you using local color in an unobtrusive way, it is all for the good. But if you stress it, the whole thing is artificial. But it should be used, I mean, it's not forbidden. But you don't have to stress it.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.