I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

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

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

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