I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather... - William Faulkner

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."

"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."