One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.