Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.