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

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

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

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.