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

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.