When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

Every life has a file, if you will.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.