I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

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

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

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.

'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.