Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.