My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune