To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.