We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.