“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”