The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC