...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

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.

I will never lie again.