A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.

Solitude is un-American.