Any genuine work of art generates new work.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

You guys line up alphabetically by height.

Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

All fruitfulness flows from intimacy.

I always found it weird when the Phantom would call Raoul insolent boy and the Raoul was obviously older than him.

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.