"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam."
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
"First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down."