My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.