The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.