Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

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.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

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

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.