The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

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.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

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.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.