Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

I'm scarcely an enfant!

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

Work is the only device I know of.

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.