"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

"If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think too much about what he is seeing. It will come out in his writing if he truly sees it."

"All good books are alike in that if you have read one carefully you have to read it again."

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."