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.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

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

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.