You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
Life is about trying things to see if they work.
A book is a loaded gun.
Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.