“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
“I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?”
“I hear a voice you cannot hear, which says I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see, which beckons me away.”
“You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself”
“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
“You take anything you fear and cannot understand and make it an object of hate. So much easier to hate and destroy than to seek to understand.”