The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
The past is the luxury of proprietors.
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.