Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

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

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

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