Passion paralyzes good taste.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.