To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

I am luminous with age.