The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

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

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.