If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

I don't know anything anymore

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.