Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

Let's hope the first comes first.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.