When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.