The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

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.

Christ Jesus is the Church.

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

Don't forget to take care of your health as you push forward to bigger and better things in life. Without life, a great strategy for your dream would be absolutely meaningless.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

I feel sorry for the little kickers that weigh 165-170.