All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

youth is a marvelous garment

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.