I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.