It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.