You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.