I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.