Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Art is a form of consciousness.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.