A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.

and love was lightning and remembrance

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.