Were we positive, eager, real - alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.