A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.