“...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.”

“My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.”

“If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.”

“Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.”

“What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -”

“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all”

“I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.”