And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Civilization begins with distillation

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.