Let's hope the first comes first.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.