He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.