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.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.