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

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.