Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.