Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

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

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.