Getting to the essence of a story takes a deep understanding of the topic, its context, its fit into the bigger picture, and its relationship to different fields.

In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

It takes the poetic imagination to make visible a deeper layer of truth.

Let’s try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray.

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

What I have to express is not handled with words. It must 'come' tot the observer. It must carry its influence over the mind of the individual into that region of him which is more than the mind. The pictures must reach inwards into the deeper experiences of the beholder – and mind you they care in no sense religious tracts – there is no story to them or literature – no morals – they are merely artistic expressions of mystical states – these in themselves being my own personal motives as drawn from either special experiences or aggregate ones.

I wanted to tell a story of finding love, but it went deeper than that, because to find love, you have to find who you are, what makes you happy.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across — not to just depict life — or criticize it — but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.