In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.