“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... ma...”

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

“How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.”