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

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

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

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.