Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.