I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.