Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

Next to music beer was best.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.