The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

To be free is often to be lonely.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

Art is born of humiliation.