"Every authentic work of art is a..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”

“One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.”

“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

“I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.”

“If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.”

“If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.”

“Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.”

“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.”