There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

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

Writers talk too much.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.