Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

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

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.