Vice is basically the love of failure.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.