I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.