A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.