And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Everything human is alien to me.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

Become the difference you want to make, " and the heart of your mind will feel what the mind of your heart knows.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.

To keep on battling and overcome the obstacles is what makes a true fighter.

There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.

To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky