“Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.”

“Don't stand when you can sit; don't sit when you can lie down.”

“don't just sit theresail something!”

“The credo of Asclepian or brain-oriented healing is 'don't just sit there, do something.' [...] The credo of Hygeian or heart-oriented healing is 'don't just do something, sit there.”

“Come on. Say something, Dru. Don't just sit there and look like I've stabbed you. Christ.”

“Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.”