Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.