Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.