There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.