... vulgarity has no nation.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.