Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Never mistake motion for action.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.