The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.