The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time.

O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.