It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.