And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.