I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

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

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

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.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.