I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.