The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.