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.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.