I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.