Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.