Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.