All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.