Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.