You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

I will say I am the sum of my books.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.