Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.