I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.