As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.