A good time for laughing is when you can.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.