And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.