The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.