Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

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

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.