I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.