Age Carries With It A Double Load

Sometimes I Say That Writing A Novel Is The Same As Constructing A Chair: A Person Must Be Able To Sit In It, To Be Balanced On It. If I Can Produce A Great Chair, Even Better. But Above All I Have To Make Sure That It Has Four Stable Feet.

I Can't Imagine Myself Outside Any Kind Of Social Or Political Involvement. Yes, I'm A Writer, But I Live In This World, And My Writing Doesn't Exist On A Separate Level. And If People Know Who I Am And Read My Books, Well, Good; That Way, If I Have Something More To Say, Then Everyone Benefits.

Don't Be Afraid, The Darkness You're In Is No Greater Than The Darkness Inside Your Own Body, They Are Two Darknesses Separated By A Skin, I Bet You've Never Thought Of That, You Carry A Darkness About With You All The Time And That Doesn't Frighten You...my Dear Chap, You Have To Learn To Live With The Darkness Outside Just As You Learned To Live With The Darkness Inside

The Distribution Of Tasks Among The Various Employees Follows A Simple Rule, Which Is That The Duty Of The Members Of Each Category Is To Do As Much Work As They Possibly Can, So That Only A Small Part Of That Work Need Be Passed To The Category Above. This Means That The Clerks Are Obliged To Work Without Cease From Morning To Night, Whereas The Senior Clerks Do So Only Now And Then, The Deputies Very Rarely, And The Registrar Almost Never.

There Is Nothing That Is Truly Free Nor Democratic Enough. Make No Mistake, The Internet Did Not Come To Save The World.