There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

I hate reality TV, because it's so bullshit.

The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

Keep going. You're almost there and remember, the sun is most beautiful as it's going away.