Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

There is nothing new in art except talent.