You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

I'm a very boring person.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.