You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.