The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.

Art like life is an open secret.