“Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer. ”
“I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.”
“I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”
“Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs.”
“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")”
“You could say, in a way, that I'm not actually a writer, though perhaps I might be called a recorder? ... I just happen to be one of those holding the pen, that's all.”