Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The writer is all alone.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

Africa has no future.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.