Fiction is not an escape from reality but a deeper immersion into it.

The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

To feed the world, we must first understand it.