The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.