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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.