The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?