Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

To ask the hard question is simple.