I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.