“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

“Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too just like anything else. It's all work work.”

“Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other and enjoy both operations at once.”

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

“Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other and enjoy both operations at once.”

“great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this aft...”

“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on ...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”