If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.