The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

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.

In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!

Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.

The great fact is that the source of all you desire comes from within! The answers to these needs will be found within you.

She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.

It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.