What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.
It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.
Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
I'm not interested in pop art.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
