Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief.
"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward."
Mental life is fundamentally about adjustment to environment.
The writer’s life is a life of humiliation.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.