There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.