There Are Many Things Behind A Good

The Worst Thing That Can Happen To An Artist Is To Be Subsidized By The State. It Leads To An Intellectual And Artistic Castration.

The Secret To A Masterpiece Is 10 Percent Inspiration And 90 Percent Perspiration.

The Truths That Seem Most Truthful, If You Look At Them From All Sides, If You Look At Them Close Up, Turn Out To Be Either Half Truths Or Lies.

I Couldn't Imagine Any Other Way Of Living, Outside Of Books, Outside My Work. Which Doesn't Mean I Am Not Interested In Other Things, Of Course - I Am Interested In Many Things. But The Center, The Crux, Is Always Literature.

Revolution Will Free Society Of Its Afflictions, While Science Will Free The Individual Of His.