The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

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.