Fashions in sin change.

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

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.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

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

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.