I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.