Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.
He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.
To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.