Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

I think of myself as being an ethical man, but I don't try to teach ethics. I have no message. I know little about contemporary life. I don't read a newspaper. I dislike politics and politicians. I belong to no party whatever. My private life is a private life. I try to avoid photography and publicity.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.