We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.