Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

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.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.