One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

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

I am an American – Chicago born.