People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress.

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.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

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.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real

The harder it gets, the closer you are.

I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama

You are one brave woman, " he whispers, "I am in awe of you.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.