The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

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

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

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

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

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon....

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon....

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children,...

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children,...

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

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

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

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

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his...

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his...

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

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

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention...

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people...

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read...

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...