It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.