the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.