I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

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

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.