Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.