“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”

“Its natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more ...”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

“If you care about something you have to protect it If youre lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“My life is a reading list.”

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”