It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.