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

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.