"Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more"
— Philip Roth (Portnoy's Complaint)

"Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them."
— Philip Roth

"Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing."
— A.S. Byatt

"What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit."
— John Updike

"We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one."
— John Updike

"...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold. "
— Diane Arbus

""A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know." "
— Diane Arbus