There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.