We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.