Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.