“Writing is the emotional morphine.”
“I write emotional algebra.”
“A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”
“He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.”
“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”