I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it

I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.