“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”

“If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution - a higher institution.”