People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.