Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

What we need is endless courage.

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.