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.

words can never get at the truth.

Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.