If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.