I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.