“as the spirit wanes the form appears”

“Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.”

“There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.”

“Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.”

“My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.”

“They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.”

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”