Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.