Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

Some people live life and others talk about it.