Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.