What is moral is what you feel good after.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

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