Life itself is a quotation.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

Only in the present do things happen.

I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.