In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

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.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.