Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.