What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.