Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

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

Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

But did thee feel the earth move?

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.