People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
“I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.”
“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”