Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

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.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Religion is the opium of the poor.