“An exile's only country is his country's literature.”

“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in exile in their own country. They are torn between love of home and love of something else; of which the sea may be the explanation or may be only the symbol. It is also found in a nameless nursery rhyme which is the finest line in English literature and the dumb refrain of all English poems, 'Over the hills and far away.”

“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”

“Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.”

“In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.”

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.”