There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.