The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.