“I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.”

“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched - just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance - so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.”

“I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable.”

“The dogma of suspicion must be critiqued.”

“Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.”

“You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.”