There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

I don't think in any language. I think in images.

There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust