But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Fear comes with middle age.

Writers talk too much.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.