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

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

Read, read read. Read everything.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.