Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.

Art is seduction, not rape.

My skull is crammed with quotations.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.