Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

A day without writing was a little death.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?