An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
Money is always there but the pockets change.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
Literature – creative literature – unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.