The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.
I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.