Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

You have to fall in love with hanging around words.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.