Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.