There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Hope is a slow business.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.