"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

"I am a most unhappy man. I have been reduced to a state of utter destitution. I am a pauper. I have no money, no clothes, no shoes, no home, no wife, no children, no friends, no hope, no health, no st…"

"I am a man who believes in the power of words."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"He who shies away from a direct grappling with reality, from the raw, unadorned truth, is a coward."