No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

Something that you feel will find its own form.