The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.