“Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.”

“There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of...”

“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”

“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied”