"I have been writing for twenty years, and I have only just begun to learn how to write."

"I am a man who has lived in exile for many years, but I have never forgotten my homeland."

"I am afraid I am more interested in the shape of sentences than in their moral implications."

"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."

"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring."