The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.