“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the ...” — Matthew Arnold Quote

“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”

“For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.”

“Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.”

“Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.”

“Politics is activity in relation to power.”

“I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.”