What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

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

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.