If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.