If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.