“It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.”

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.

He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul – his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully.

Hold’em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.

Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

Seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

Since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

In the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.

I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations.

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.