Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.