Every great change is simple.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

America is a lunatic asylum.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.