I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.