If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.