We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.