If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.