Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.