I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.