There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.