"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."
"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."