Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, and she cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.