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. 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.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.