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

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

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

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