I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The master said, ‘Do not worry about the past, do not worry about the future, do what is necessary.’

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.