I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

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.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

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

Nobody really lives in the present.

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

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.