Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.