The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.