Artists are here to disturb the peace.

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.