All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.