It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Live it up so you can write it down.

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.