A diary means yes indeed.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

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.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.