The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that..

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I h….

I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and….

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-yea….

advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day ….

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do..

Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like ….

It is such a relief to be told the truth..

Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die..

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it..

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can'….

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by h….

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being..

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to….

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decora….

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting read….

But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work ….

Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and ….

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet..

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we….

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good..