Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.
Harry CrewsI've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.
Harry Crews