Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

Hunger is good discipline.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.