Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

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

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

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

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.