The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

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

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