This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.