Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

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.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

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.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.