If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

"I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!"

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

"The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure."

"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."