My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.