In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.