It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Civilization begins with distillation

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible