I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.
There are two types of stories: public and private.
I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
I don't like Paradise, As they probably don't have obsessions there.
To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.
I dream in fire but work in clay.
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
Big stories need human stakes.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
I think that books are fundamentally educational.
