When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.
There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.
[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act. ' 'You call that singing?'. . . We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.
We are all born artists. . . . Almost everything kids do is art.
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.
Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.