I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

In a way he was lucky. He was a member of a generation that thought it
was a good, even joyous, political idea to put its brains, energy,
labor at the service of the people.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.