“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that takes more than a little time.”
“But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.”
“One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.”
“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”
“One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.”
“One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.”