The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.