And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.