About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Not the why but the what.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.