we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.