Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
Love is dope, not chicken soup.
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
Summer had come to sit on New York's face.
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.