Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Time is the least thing we have.