advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.