I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.