Try to be better than yourself.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.