You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all..

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating..

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs..

Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifyin….

Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be ab….

...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitali….

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith..

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce..

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes ….

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is..

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write..

Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living i….

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic..

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics..

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. ….

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain ev….

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive..

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say..

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of ….

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand..

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality..