“Art depends on luck and talent.”

“... there's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing it, or immediately after. This, coupled with the chorus of critical reaction from those privileged to take a first look, is almost enough to discourage further work entirely.”

“We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice.”

“We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.”

“I don't see any method at all...Sir”

“I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.”

“He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY”