An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

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

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.