when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.