Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.