“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.”
“Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?”
“I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.”
“It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and for words to mean what they say. It's all right, too, for words and appearances to mean more than one thing--ambiguity is a fact of life.”
“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”
“Apparently I write as a hobby, payment appears to be out of the question.”