For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Man is what he reads.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.