Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

What we need now is endless courage.

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

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.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?