On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
You can't find the soul with a scalpel.