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

words can never get at the truth.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

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

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.