I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.