Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.