“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.”

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

I am more faithful than I intended to be!

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The helpless can’t help the helpless.

I’m raised to actually think, to use my brain.

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .

But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.

We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.

Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.