Live In The Past, But Don't Remember

The Best In Art And Life Comes From A Center - Something Urgent And Powerful, An Idea Or Emotion That Insists On Its Being. From That Insistence, A Shape Emerges And Creates Its Structure Out Of Passion. If You Begin With A Structure, You Have To Make Up The Passion, And That's Very Hard To Do.

Why, For Example, Do The Great Writers Use Anticipation Instead Of Surprise? Because Surprise Is Merely An Instrument Of The Unusual, Whereas Anticipation Of A Consequence Enlarges Our Understanding Of What Is Happening.

Slum Kids Die Slowly, Their Lives Eroded At So Languid A Pace That Even They Would Have Trouble Tracing The Disintegration. To The Children Of War Death Explodes Like A Car Bomb.

Just Because The Person Who Criticizes You Is An Idiot Doesn't Make Him Wrong.

One Senses, In All Autobiography, A Straining Toward Perfection, Perfection Of A Kind That Connects The Individual With A Cosmic Pattern Which, Because It Is Perfect In Itself, Verifies That Individuals Own Potential Perfection.