“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”

“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”

“Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.”

“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...”

“...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critic...”

“The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.”

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.”

“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you cant go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people w...”