We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.