His flesh took paleness from his bones.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

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

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!?

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.