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Madame ... gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

We are all potentially characters in a novel
with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I have made love to ten thousand women.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.