In every work of art the subject is primordial whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Madame all stories if continued far enough end in death and he is no...
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
There is no lonelier man in death except the suicide than that man who has...
Courage is grace under pressure.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing but always to stop when...
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them...
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up -...
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I...
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and...
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in...
Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways...
Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
