nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

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