Only God gets things right the first time.

Doubters will doubt to the end.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.