“If I do it you won't ever worry?''I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.'"Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me.”

“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”

“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”

“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her”

“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what.I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

“If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”

“I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.”