My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other I usually chose the beautiful.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other I usually chose the beautiful.

The House of Lords an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

The House of Lords an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.