I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.