Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.