I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning 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.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone