"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."