A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.