I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

I must play the instrument I've got.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.