“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and p...” — Thomas Mann Quote

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

“Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.”

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”

“The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.”

“It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.”

“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”