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 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.

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

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

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Employment will fail you someday

Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.

The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

[Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him.

We have endorsements of our plan from key leaders within the environmental movement. That doesn't mean that it includes the whole environmental movement.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.