You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.