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

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.

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

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

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.

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