Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

Real worship involves waiting.