running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.