When you leave, weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go.

When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Man is more powerful than matter.

I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.