Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?