The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day..

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art..

Write about what you're afraid of..

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted..

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising..

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions..

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket..

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how..

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart..

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin..

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages..

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love..

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what….

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, sile….

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?.

Any genuine work of art generates new work..

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love..

What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instant….

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life..

The death of God left the angels in a strange position..

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but….