"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"
"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
"To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away..."
"The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."