If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.