"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

"The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future."

"I am not a writer. I am a man who writes."

"I am a man who has thought too much."

"I have not lost my faith. I have lost my church."