We are born knowing death.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

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.

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.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

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.