The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.