“Becoming a successful professional writer implies that one's own mind is entertaining enough to keep the work interesting. ”

“If you're trying to open a doorway to perception and it seems to be stuck, try opening it the other way.”

“So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.”

“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.”

“How uninteresting interesting things can become.”

“Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over.That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.”

“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.”