Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.