When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.
If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.
She has a look," I said, "of not altogether belonging to today.
Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.
I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.
I always tell what I see.
If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.
I know many lives worth living.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.
