Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything..

You're tearing me apart!.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go..

The one-legged never stumble..

Where's the rest of me?.

There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything..

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves..

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing..

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

I take things too seriously..

Wanderlust is incurable..

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign p….

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..