There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.