To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.