It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

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

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.

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.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man