I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

You have to know what you want to get it.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.