An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Writing is its own reward.