There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullar….

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once..

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tink….

Writing is its own reward..

Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I ….

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept ….

Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonig….

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable..

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life..

The best technique is none at all..

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans..

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral..

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold..

A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. Ther….

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior..

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy..

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to ref….

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to d….

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer..

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing..

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love..