See the moon? It hates us.
Write about what you're afraid of.
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
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.