Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

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.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

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.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

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

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.

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

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.