All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

You can't have everything, even in California

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.