Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful one can wage a...
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance...
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a...
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned...
Champagne if you are seeking the truth is better than a lie detector. It...
In human relationships kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love five hundred years of democracy and...
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange...
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the...
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not...
If you have abandoned one faith do not abandon all faith. There is always an...
Success is more dangerous than failure the ripples break over a wider...
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Failure too is a form of death.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of...
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age when the sense of curiosity has...
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
