“I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”
“The best writings, like the best men, tell the truth.”
“Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.”
“He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through”
“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.”
“The best way out is always through.”