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

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.