You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.