Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

Write about what you're afraid of.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.