Fiction is an improvement on life

little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity